Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 178 70 49
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 15.17% 11.25% 10.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.20% 35.53% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 53 36
10th Percentile £400 £317 £483
25th Percentile £438 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £536
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -11.42% -10.10%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £623
90th Percentile £675 £668 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £507
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.85% -7.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 432 197 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.83% 31.67% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 149 91
10th Percentile £357 £299 £400
25th Percentile £447 £363 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -8.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £601 £541 £595
90th Percentile £685 £655 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £21.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 173 £519 +9.26% 84
Doncaster -7 1 - - 9
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.55%) Confluence
2 13 (7.30%) Apache Spark
3 9 (5.06%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.49%) Apache
4 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.81%) Apache Superset
6 2 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 94 (52.81%) AWS
2 84 (47.19%) GCP
3 36 (20.22%) GitHub
4 29 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (15.73%) Entra ID
6 22 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.74%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.06%) Serverless
11 7 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (2.81%) Azure Storage
12 5 (2.81%) Kong
12 5 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.25%) Cloud Run
13 4 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.25%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) Network Security
2 13 (7.30%) DNS
3 11 (6.18%) Firewall
4 5 (2.81%) VPN
5 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.69%) NAS
6 3 (1.69%) SAN
7 2 (1.12%) DHCP
7 2 (1.12%) LAN
7 2 (1.12%) Multicast
7 2 (1.12%) VLAN
7 2 (1.12%) VSAN
7 2 (1.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.56%) Intranet
8 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.87%) Big Data
2 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.18%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.62%) Power BI
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.81%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.81%) Trino
8 4 (2.25%) Metadata
8 4 (2.25%) Redis
9 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.12%) Flink
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 35 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 25 (14.04%) JIRA
3 13 (7.30%) Git
4 8 (4.49%) GitLab
4 8 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.69%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.69%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.12%) Gatling
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) Maven
7 2 (1.12%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.12%) Postman
7 2 (1.12%) Selenium
7 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Gradle
8 1 (0.56%) Newman
8 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 73 (41.01%) Social Skills
2 67 (37.64%) Finance
3 25 (14.04%) Banking
4 23 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.06%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Law
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (15.17%) Architect
1 27 (15.17%) Lead
2 22 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (9.55%) Developer
4 12 (6.74%) Senior
5 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (5.62%) Consultant
7 9 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (5.06%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Software Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (3.37%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (32.02%) Terraform
2 25 (14.04%) REST
3 18 (10.11%) OAuth
4 16 (8.99%) Kafka
5 15 (8.43%) OpenID
6 14 (7.87%) .NET
6 14 (7.87%) OAuth2
7 13 (7.30%) SAML
8 12 (6.74%) React
9 10 (5.62%) SailPoint
10 9 (5.06%) ASP.NET
11 8 (4.49%) JSON
12 7 (3.93%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.93%) FIDO
12 7 (3.93%) Spring
12 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
12 7 (3.93%) Web Services
13 6 (3.37%) HTML
13 6 (3.37%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.24%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (10.11%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.74%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.74%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.62%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.37%) Replication
7 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.81%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.81%) PKI
9 4 (2.25%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Blog
10 3 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.69%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.11%) Windows
2 17 (9.55%) Linux
3 15 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) AIX
4 3 (1.69%) Android
4 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (52.81%) CI/CD
2 91 (51.12%) DevOps
3 63 (35.39%) Cybersecurity
4 52 (29.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (26.40%) Observability
6 37 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (20.22%) Agile
7 36 (20.22%) AI
7 36 (20.22%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (18.54%) Analytics
9 32 (17.98%) DevSecOps
9 32 (17.98%) Microservices
10 29 (16.29%) Test Automation
11 28 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (15.73%) Software Engineering
12 27 (15.17%) Cloud Security
13 26 (14.61%) RBAC
14 25 (14.04%) Containerisation
15 24 (13.48%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.39%) Python
2 42 (23.60%) Java
3 34 (19.10%) SQL
4 28 (15.73%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.87%) C#
6 11 (6.18%) Bash
7 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.49%) Bicep
8 8 (4.49%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.93%) Go
9 7 (3.93%) Groovy
9 7 (3.93%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Cypher
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) Degree
2 12 (6.74%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.06%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.06%) CISSP
3 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (3.93%) CCSP
4 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.93%) CISM
5 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) CCSK
6 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.69%) NCDA
8 3 (1.69%) NCIE
8 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.69%) PMP
9 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) NIST
3 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.81%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.81%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.25%) GRC
7 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.12%) GDPR
8 2 (1.12%) PMO
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 31 (17.42%) Active Directory
1 31 (17.42%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Hyper-V
2 9 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.25%) vSphere
4 3 (1.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (1.69%) SRDF
5 2 (1.12%) NFS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.56%) Ceph
6 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (34.83%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.48%) Ansible
3 16 (8.99%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.87%) Grafana
5 8 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.93%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.69%) Argo
9 3 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.69%) Packer
9 3 (1.69%) SnapMirror
9 3 (1.69%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.56%) SCCM
11 1 (0.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 56 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.11%) Databricks
3 13 (7.30%) Google
4 12 (6.74%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.62%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.06%) VMware
7 8 (4.49%) Okta
7 8 (4.49%) Splunk
8 7 (3.93%) OpenAI
9 6 (3.37%) Centrify
9 6 (3.37%) Cisco
10 5 (2.81%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.25%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.25%) Ping Identity
11 4 (2.25%) Veeam
12 3 (1.69%) 3PAR
12 3 (1.69%) Brocade
12 3 (1.69%) Dell
12 3 (1.69%) IBM
12 3 (1.69%) NetApp